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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Covid's True Origins
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:14:27 +1000
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On 21/04/2025 8:58 am, bitrex wrote:
> On 4/20/2025 6:43 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:47:00 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 20.04.25 um 09:55 schrieb Cursitor Doom:
>>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:29:33 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Yeah, if they had any real evidence of anything they'd find someone to
>>>>> charge with _something_.
>>>>
>>>> It'll come in time. Remember you didn't have a president worthy of the
>>>> name until only just over 3 months ago and quite understandably he's
>>>> had plenty of more pressing things to deal with first.
>>>
>>> Like renaming the gulf of Mexico? Or expelling the Palestinians to
>>> make place for some casinos? pretty casinos, very pretty casinos?
>>> With TRUMPET in big golden capital letters on them, pretty letters,
>>> very very pretty letters?
>>>
>>> They don't have a president, they have a king wannabe.
>>> And that king has no clothes. Can you imagine DT nekkid?
>>> Let alone someone kissing his wrinkled arse?
>>> aaaargh....
>>
>> Well no one's perfect. And you can't take anything he says too
>> literally as he does have a whacky sense of humor as well know.
> 
> 2024 election summary: Half the people who voted for Trump voted for him 
> because they thought he won't do things he said he will, and half the 
> people who voted for Harris voted for her because they thought she would 
> do things she said she wouldn't.

This isn't any kind of summary. It's Cursitor Doom's demented idea of 
what went on.

> That is to say a lot of citizens voted based on emotion, and the only 
> crazier people to show up to vote than the people voting on emotion was 
> anyone trying to vote on logic.

There's nothing crazy about using logic to work out who you will vote 
for. The US problem is that the political parties spread out a lot of 
misinformation - election propaganda - and a lot of the electorate is 
too poorly educated to reject the misinformation.

Donald Trump is remarkably good at putting the kind of emotional wrapper 
on his misinformation that makes it attractive to the less well-educated 
- people like Cursitor Doom and John Larkin - and the US public has been 
hit by a lot of nonsense over the years - Joe McCarthy and Ronald Regan 
come mind. and George W. Bush and his non-existent weapons of mass 
destruction in Irak. They haven't learned as much scepticism as they 
should have. Cursitor Doom is only sceptical about correct information - 
if it isn't implausible he isn't interested.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney